Well .... yes? It'd be better for the NYT to not report on something that clearly is overblown and doesn't matter! Accusations of hypocrisy are useful because

Well .... yes? It'd be better for the NYT to not report on something that clearly is overblown and doesn't matter! Accusations of hypocrisy are useful because they act as a reality check. If 4k word privacy policies were so terrible the NYT wouldn't have one. Clearly nobody cares, so journalists should have taken this as a strong cue that they're chasing a non-story, almost certainly due to their own strong biases and desires. This isn't some evidence of heroic journalistic integrity, it's evidence they're spinning something out of nothing.